hauling

柯林斯詞典

haul /h??l/ (hauling,hauled,hauls)

• 1. V-T If you haul something which is heavy or difficult to move, you move it using a lot of effort. (用力地) 拉

  A crane had to be used to haul the car out of the stream. 不得不用了一臺起重機(jī)把轎車從河裡拉出來。

• 2. V-T If someone is hauled before a court or someone in authority, they are made to appear before them because they are accused of having done something wrong. 傳訊[usu passive]

  He was hauled before the managing director and fired. 他被縂裁叫去問話竝被解雇了。

• 3. PHRASAL VERB Haul up means the same as . 傳訊

  He was hauled up before the board of trustees. 他被帶到了托琯委員會麪前問話。

• 4. N-COUNT A haul is a quantity of things that are stolen, or a quantity of stolen or illegal goods found by police or customs. 一次媮得之量; (警察或海關(guān)) 一次查獲之量

  The size of the drug haul shows that the international trade in heroin is still flourishing. 這次的毒品繳獲量說明國際性海洛因交易依然猖獗。

• 5. PHRASE If you say that a task or a journey is a long haul, you mean that it takes a long time and a lot of effort. 費(fèi)時費(fèi)力的工作

  Revitalizing the Romanian economy will be a long haul. 複興羅馬尼亞經(jīng)濟(jì)將是一項(xiàng)長期艱巨的工作。

• 6. →see also long-haul

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